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Fe lL DER WI Oy Beatrice © 1925 NEA SERVICE INC. Burton . THE STORY SO FAR wn, No one Ane ‘ ar . A a ya t \ He t ‘ i deat head f : m im at iM ee t WA w Or \ n hin at But Nid not quite ee . AS Even as Gloria * ed bh £ : jrew it away and picked up a pe y 4 SAMA Wialnts ¢ Then she backed away from a4 upon a new ea int Digh ic moot ¢ t ee Mr Gregor ahe a secretary, MISS It's none of my bus by m & Ww 1 Hut have i | > 1 know u've had 4, of spell nh a montl Dick raised his head. His eyes LOLA HOUGH. D to go. T Su - MYRA GAIL, her on t W v takes aides w an Gloria the NOW ¢ 2 STORY a at hs Mins Brig And sho had all but patted Dic may, Gloria watch- | k's ITH utter $ALESMAN { ed Myra Gail get up from her shoulder when she had hovered over 44 table. him a moment ago! Was she tn .«.« It was one thing to quarrel love with him . » this “day ~ } with the shabby Lola, who had few} , She pushed the door wide | timo wite” of \ — quite another to have] open with her foot, and\ Probably she was, Gl te acted, t yra for an enemy | cn Ee A tiny — pin-pric of suspicior } For Myra was a born leader, And walked into the room, stabbed her. And then It was gone, <4 oF ae ener wate mare: But Gloria turned her head away | almost before abe felt It | Gloria it | trom him For Dick was a one-woman man + thelr own! } Woman lash a or he trieg: | flash was on her him the bottle of brat worry about Miss Briggs | " playing cards loria was sure that Dick i Sage 5s cit A ee peat, | So prize, I'll remark have looked ‘at a prize } ee ee ar febetesienice): said with enthuslasm. when she, herself, was in { TH run upstairs and tell Lola I'm| 1 ive toak’ hax thas Herein his bende i sorry for what I said. I'll bring her| “a haopanGs 2 | ck oe y and kissed her savagely, again and uP A bs t u ok otimes Gloria wished that he| i She ran upst to May's bed- | ae eeroci'<t” Cllavla“ered.«**Poe wieint | Wowie ok... mors., otten at other | Toom where Lola was pinning on ee ot eda Lal oda ache e It would give her more i her unf: onable old kiss me! We're forgetting I'm ma edom “Pleas di 7 e, #9 a i ‘tes mut’ he { begged. “I'm awft a thiek voice. And then| She pushed the door wide open I sald to th ‘her® foot walked into the i I didn't me haw heuleen th i downstairs wi hief The minute Dick saw her hia face ar Lola shook ta Hin eyes ed up and ' “No,” she s said wero business * he sald any ; ji with the t wou! 1 not so much as glance q all cracke Se " A : 4 walked coolly I’m no good for ai 4y! Hel, 4 elaine nee i arms work. Don't ask age vie ra Phebe ‘ hers = more today T couldn't face sa 2 heard the eta losing x 1 the bunch, downstairs ae when oe office Dich . behind At that momen: Bie pei Phi Brine T floc she smiled into the bedroom t a opiicict Cte now Miss Briggs how H Gloria, furiously. 1th G spac 8d She t in Dick's - “It's you that ought to to. bring | abe Mis aed wire except herelf, ria! id ashamed to’ face the crowd!” she|. 0. s¢ phere : Pidgin Esa err thoes dip lb 1] Some women might have to worry | i" Sted, “after what you did to Lola! |4, Gioria whom Dick loved |something, first.” Bt srd myssed her hale or |About thelr husband's stenographe: i At was the meanest thing I've ever | rv F sayin fit ‘alse toca t |Btan had myssed her hair OF) sut not she! That was for unat- oe seen one gitl do to another! Belleve| “Well, Glory Gregory's won the waited a moment before he} knocked her hat awry when hej Oo taae-aged women | 4a me, Il think twice before I play | pri s usual,” little Mrs. Wing | answered. A | kissed her. al fie Glavin: Geeety,: with | i cards with you again... . Comejcried, when the scores were added| “In front of your husband's office! fhe powdered her little nose care-|) * 7 Ot as tke aw pansy! ; along, Lola, and I'll drive Fou tb, two hours later. |bullding?’ he repeated. “That's not/fully and drew a motatened finger | "** pe, r Dia’ had cated } home.” “And {t's one that will sult her to/#0 good. What !f he should look /tip along her eyebrows. And yet -<- Megat ya SA ia She marched past Gloria without|a TI" May added. She went {nto |out of the window and seo us Then, all at once, Gloria became | Mise Briggs “Busy” . . eae | - another word or look. Lola fol-|the dining room, and returned | “Coward!’ Gloria cried. ‘“You|aware of Mins Briggs talking in a!¥, almost ae If she pe; been Ait ~_ lowed meekly. Dazed, Gloria watch- asty bottle of F ng to take a chance|votce that was strangely lodd for) wife! The memory was most dis ed them go. you know abo her. quieting to apie vine si Ned "Glor-ce"” May called her from|for a slam! She gives mo liqu re iif omg bods we rorya laled PPR CES ie io llcake 1s Seat the hall below. “Come on down so|and says {t will suit mo to a T as x on the ede a cpio nko yt org mataiaabend bering rs aaa she drove up We can go on playing.” {Gloria shrilled. “What am I golng|of the Gloria tossed her head and went to do with tho stuff, girls? If I take |beside him. y for Minn Briggs ved him! N wife's coming down | expect Dick haps my for me in her car,” answered fe » a eae * sh ae shortly. His voles wan muffied.| (Continued in Our Next Issue) Alves URES Foren pha MUDD CENTER FOLKS BY SMALL 08 THE PUNE pedeagll ace ke thit r WoULD'NT WoRRY : : or no? SO MUCH ABOUT OTHER live Roberts Barton j Stan shook his head his FANNY Her'D PRo- | NO. 5—THORNS, SPARKS AND WIND cheeks were mantied with a ¢ red vipe RELIEF FER Gloria was sure that going to tell her tho truth. “Of course, I wasn't,” he said. | Let's seo, where was I yesterday afternoon? where in particular, I guess i: | Ho btoke off and took her hands} |in their driving gloves in his, He} smiled down into her clear, amber 0 was} | “What a jealous little thing you he said. “ I wonder what you'd you were marrigd to me | Would you be Jealous then?” | “Would 17” Gloria breathed. Stan's | touch,. thru her gloves, was comforting. “I'd camp on your trail I'd be so Jealous! I wouldn't let another woman look at you or even | speak to you, even!” "Do you feel that Dick?” Wayburn asked. amused by her fury | », I can't imagine being jealous “We came to get the rainbow-colored balloon for the Sour-|°% Pick. 1 wish I were," Gloria said about was way He 4 Old-Woman-Who-Lives-U; tha Wats jr pate arta She did honestly wish that she Vho-Lives-Under-the-Waterfall,” said Nick. | were jenious of Dick that she GOYATHAT do you want?” asked “You will spoil the balloon it you| fed for him wildly and longingly as she was sure she loved Stanley | Wayburn. Twelve Toes, the Nancy and Nick front door. rcerer, as| go on.” his} sud a voice said, “Feel us! ih Just us!’ The Twins looked We camo tw get the rainbow-col-| around, but saw no one, ‘Then Nick ored balloon for the Sour-Old-Wom- | remembered that the thicket had not appeared It must be wonderful to marry the man you loved! To be not | only-his sweetheart, but his wife, his an - Who - Lives - Under - the. Wa.| been there when they had come that | + on LL nde to) heve ‘ ¢ fall,” sald Nic wae bath « ! @ all of him, his moods, his tempers, EP taayht 1 eo way before, “It must be mae,” hel, Gortes, ta wal at a love! THe “RELIEF OF THE NEAR EAST” IS ‘umph! don't care if you} thought nd being magic, it in| 0 | camo to get It for the Dear-Old-Mun. | the thicket talking.” "| ‘to have the right to smooth away WORRYING AUNT FANNY BUZZ TERRIBLY Who - Lives - on - the « Moon," said| So he reached out and touched a| ‘h? tired lines around his eyes with AND SHE Does HOPE THAT & SHoweR, ‘Twelve Toes. “You can't have it.” |thorn. Instantly {t bent tlre Ane ih Me ithe of FoLLoOWED BY A CooL WAVE, IS ON THE "That's too bad,” sald Nancy, ‘for| “Why, these thorns are made of|hislone workday! ‘ we have to get {t some way.” rubber, he said rcadtnall pha raatnial wha that thlarerad WAY— IF ALL SHE READS IS CORRECT, ere Toes looked suspicious. along They can't prick the bal-|the way to be a wife, the kind of THOSE DOWN EAST FOLKS MUST BE “How can you?” he asked. “Have\!oon.” And he plunged right thru fe she had never been to Dick Bee fany rangic’ sion Abia ihlokcoti-withoitt ag ‘mauchi as ‘a'| Dare oeesistave baal ven iui: an SUFFERING SOMETHING TERRIBLE. ~ “Just our shoes," said Nick | *ratch | thing but rest and peace ‘bravely. But when they crossed the next) “It’s getting dark, I’m going to 40h, ho! You don't carry things | Mountain, suddenly a fire sprang| kiss you,” Stan said abruptly said Twelve Toes, \°Ut of the top, throwing sparks all ene TaN RR run with them iq Found ’ them ’ .) MPMPGEAA) Vad avin theitaty sou |’i10s & Voloano)” cried Nancy,’ “1r)VLOMLAIN, POE ored balloon floating in a dark cor.|the sparks touch the balloon it willl gethpoRDER TO GET TESTIMONIAL —+-ERENDE TIN ORDER To INTRODUCE OUR. © ner near the ceiling. Seizing the|low up. Be careful, Nick.’ LETTERS RECCOMMENDING OR NEW VOCAL MUO WE ARE GIVING TO EACH balloon by its string, h 6 off] But Nick reached out his hand VOCAL Mu L HAVE ARRANGED OF YOLI ONE JAR ABSOLUTELY FREE sky with one bound, Nancy close at hin|and touched ono of them an it fell} 1 GWE OUT SAMPLES TO ' \T OUT AND KNOW WHAT IT 1S "TO POSSESS A BEAUTIFUL SINGING VoIC heels. Twolve Toos was so surprised that THE PUBLIC AND LET THEM nd l ‘ Japanese spark sag Be “THe JUDGE s starlike to the gre are only hie almost forgot to gnash his teeth |lers like we put off on the Fourth y 2 ARN f allie ’, ~), . fig he Always did when he wan dis-|ot July,” hoe wald, “Thoy're cold." Perey | DSBS 4 ye \ appointed—or surprised—or cronn 4o on they went again. right Goo ‘finch th Oh The Twins were over the Wobbly | thru the rain of But when > LOEA Mountain before Twelve Toes quite; they crowed the last mountain, the Yj > 1 realized what had happened one mado of glass, a great putt of | i Then he was too far behind to fol-| wind almost wrenched the balloon | waved his magic wand |from his hand. | have low, #0 he and mutte The but Nick grabbed tho | string might ‘Bler-brier mber lock, balloon in his arma, ‘The wind Thorna grow thick, their way to | lifted both boy and balloon off the} block," mountain and carried them up Into | Instantly a thicket of thorns ap-|the sky : | peated before the Twins, directly in| ‘Nick! Nick!" called Nancy, “Come their patl back " Dinars what the Sour-Ol@) ‘The Sour-Ola-Wonan wan right GUNN n dangerous thing. (Lo Be Continued.) 5, NA Service, Inc.) 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